Civil Rights Movement
Who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama?
Rosa Parks
Who was president during the Watergate Scandal?
President Richard Nixon
Who was president during the 1980s?
President Ronald Reagan
The 1954 decision that ruled state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools were unconstitutional.
Brown V. Board of Education
The 1956 legislation that provided for a 65,000-km national system of interstate and defense highways.
Federal Highway Act
The surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy on December 7, 1941, that ended American neutrality.
Pearl Harbor
The 13-day confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union regarding the deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba......what was the result?
Cuban Missile Crisis
US made the Soviet Union take down existing missiles/launch pads and nuclear weapons to be taken away on the island of Cuba
US took missiles away from Turkey....months later
What was the goal of the Civil Rights Movement?
To gain equal rights and end segregation.
What scandal caused Nixon to resign?
The Watergate Scandal
What was the name of Reagan's economic plan?
Reaganomics, Trickle-Down Economics
The ruling that states must provide attorneys to criminal defendants who cannot afford their own.
Gideon V. Wainwright
The 1964 resolution that gave President Johnson nearly unlimited powers to oppose communist aggression in Southeast Asia.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This strategy involved bypassing heavily fortified enemy islands in the Pacific to reach a final target
Island Hopping
Describe global trade and some of the problems connected with this form of commerce?
teacher interpretation of student answer
What law ended discrimination in public places in 1964?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
What war divided many Americans during the 1970s?
Vietnam War
True or False: Reaganomics lowered taxes.
True, for the wealthiest Americans, however this President also allowed for Social Security to be taxed...sort of like robbing peter to pay Paul...Thanks Ronald Reagan
The decision requiring law enforcement to warn individuals of their constitutional rights before interrogation.
Miranda V. Arizona
What date were the attacks on the twin towers in New York?
What Department was created to defend the homeland of the United States?
September 11, 2001,
Homeland Security Act
The Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, often referred to by this codename?
Operation Overlord, D-Day
Global immigration trends since 2000
increased immigration post 9/11 but recently the trends have been slowed down
Who gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What economic problem included high inflation and unemployment?
Stagflation
What did Reagan hope to do in terms of defeating communism?
outspend the Soviet Union and create high tech weapons (SDI, strategic defense initiative) to destroy the Soviet Union's ability to land missiles in the US by intercepting them in air...sort of like Israel's Iron Dome Defense system...we also bankrupted them
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
got rid of the quota system for affirmative action
The act that allowed FBI agents to obtain personal information without a judge's approval....not so American or patriotic
Patriot Act
The system that allowed the U.S. to provide war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."
Lend Lease
Name two Cold War military alliances between the communist world and capitalist world
NATO
WARSAW PACT
What law protected African Americans' right to vote in 1965?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
How did Watergate affect Americans?
Many lost trust in the government.
How would you describe the politics of the 1980s?
Conservative economy, trying to go back to conservative values, upswing in religious affiliation, business minded government
Plessy V. Ferguson allowed for the doctrine of?
Separate but equal in terms of segregating by race
After 9/11, the U.S. created laws which restricted our__________________rights
Constitutional
A geopolitical foreign policy pursued by the U.S. to prevent the spread of communism
containment
What action during the Korean War got General Douglas MacArthur fired as commander of US forces during the conflict
Refused orders from President Truman not to chase the North Koreans too close to the Chinese boarder
Failed to keep his political views private and challenged the President
Wanted Nationalist Chinese troops to help in a potential invasion of China, wanted to also use nuclear weapons against the Chinese
This activist organized unions to improve conditions for exploited Latino farm laborers.
Cesar Chavez
How did young Americans defy the draft for the Vietnam War? Provide three examples
Protest
Burning Draft Cards
Avoiding the draft: college, leaving the country, medical deferment
What was the Iran Contra Affair about?
Teacher will interpret: Nicaragua, sale of weapons to Iran, CIA involvement, get rid of communist in Nicaragua, Central America
Roe V. Wade allowed for....
Women to have the right to an abortion before the third trimester of a pregnancy
Which structures were destroyed/damaged as a result of the 9/11 attacks?
Pentagon, Twin Towers of the World Trade Center
A military strategy where the use of nuclear weapons by both sides would cause complete annihilation.
MADD
Mutually Assured Destruction
Which women's organization promoted feminist ideals and to get rid of gender discrimination...tell me the answer right now
NOW, National Organization of Women